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After his unexpected shift into the macabre, when he "saw something terrible, I saw pound signs".

The partner of a man killed in a fish farm accident said a pound sign could not be put on a life after his employer was fined more than £800,000.

In the distance: a brick castle labeled “FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE,” decorated with a hypnotic swirl of dollar, euro and pound signs.

Those patients expecting surgery may be shocked by how the current system could encourage those who treat them to see pound signs rather than patients.

In 2007, not long after Twitter launched, an early adopter named Chris Messina came up with the idea of retrofitting pound signs into an ad-hoc system for sorting through the platform’s rising volume of tweets.